Prison

Frame · Built spaces spatial

Confinement as a spatial quality – walls meant to hold, controlled movement, freedom as that which is missing.

Design question – Your play space is closed and controlled. What makes the confinement productive – tension, creativity in circumventing the restriction, or the weight of unfreedom?

Reference example – A Way Out: cells, guards and a plan that only works with two. Monopoly: the jail space, which you only leave with a double or a card.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Planning (escape), Smuggling, Observing (routines), Surviving

Coherence

Mechanisms: Movement Restriction, Patrol Patterns, Hidden Action (contraband), Timer (the rhythm of control). Activities: Planning (escape), Smuggling, Observing (routines), Surviving. Ludic Organisational Structures: political order (control), social order (hierarchy among prisoners), spatial order (controlled).